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D-Day for Lionjanga
Lionjanga is appealing against conviction and a three-year jail term, which has been wholly suspended for two years. He was convicted of corruption for participating in a number of PPADB meetings that assessed a tender bid by Eastgate Enterprises in...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
Lessons from Tiananmen
Many unarmed Chinese citizens were killed by People's Liberation Army troops on June 4, 1989, not only in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square, but in cities all over China. Most were not students, who started the peaceful demonstrations against...
* IAN BURUMA 04 June 2009
This is discrimination
I have been under the impression the Societies Act regulates all societies operating in Botswana which includes, among others, football teams, political parties but it appears the only society the ministry is worried about and its operations is the...
04 June 2009
Govt gets P10.5 bn lifeline from AFDB
The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday announced it had approved a US$1.5 billion (P10.5 billion) loan to Botswana to help the country in that regard. Describing Botswana as one of the best managed economies in Africa, AfDB president...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
Botswana Tourism Board in major Toyota 1000 Desert Race role
The event was officially opened by the chief executive officer of the Botswana Tourism Board Myra Sekgororoane at a recent gala function at Game City, the race headquarters for the event in Gaborone. A cocktail function was also held where the...
04 June 2009
Failure won't deter Lekwalo the risk-taker
Details he reveals to me during our interview even though he was quick to make me ask whether he has a girlfriend by stating that he knew that I would ask him that question anyway. Kabo Lekwalo, popularly known as Orakle, is a 25-year-old...
MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 04 June 2009
Vee's Pantsula outshines kwasa-house in the new album
The streets are confirming this. Around the Gaborone Main Mall, street vendors selling Vee's latest album are pumping out Vee's remake of Lazarus kgagodi O tla nchesa ka kwai, titled Nice, in the latest Vee album." It is the same story at the station...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
Kaybee offers you every beat
Wasenda, who goes by the name Kaybee, should have just used her natural voice. In all instances where she did not mould it, the songs sounded great. They say it does not matter how you spread "the good word" and many have used various platforms to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 04 June 2009
Bakwena appeals for funds
Speaking to Mmegi during an interview, Bakwena said this year, Thapong intends to make the awards 'bigger and better' as they are going to have six categories namely, painting, printmaking, sculpture, pottery, photography and media. The awards...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 04 June 2009
BNSC denies firing officer over stadium delays
"I am not aware of any officer who was released because of the re-grassing of the stadium or any other issue," Kemoeng said. He said the BNSC focus at the moment is to "save a situation" before any finger pointing. "This matter is bigger than...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
Has Killer Giants' crowning moment arrived?
The Ramotswa side has seen its dream crumble in the last five years but the moment of reckoning beckons this weekend. Homeboys, Letlapeng, are the opponents this weekend with a draw sufficient to send Killer Giants to the Premier League. Unlike...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 04 June 2009
NGOs to grapple with 4Ds
The national NGO week will be held in Gaborone at the Botswana National Youth Council grounds from June 15-19, 2009 under the theme "Dignity, Discipline, Development and Democracy (4Ds), our stake and contribution". Speaking at a press conference...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
Morama, Letsopa win 7's school tourney
Jwaneng-based Morama drubbed Mochudi's Radikolo Junior Secondary School 51-5 whilst Lobatse based Letsopa conquered Orapa Junior Secondary School 10-0 in their respective finals. Twenty-five teams from various schools across the country took part....
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 04 June 2009
Man gets 10-year jail term for rape
Chief Magistrate Lorraine Makati-Lesang condemned Tsame Ditshotlo, who has previous conviction to the sentence despite his pleas of innocence. Ditshotlo's convictions go back to 1987 when he was sentenced to 12 months for stock theft. At the time,...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 04 June 2009
Branches query leadership of BMWU
The burning issues range from misappropriation of the organisation's funds and failure to elect the union vice president. Sources say after the death of former union president, Golekanye Mogende, branches were divided over who should replace him....
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
ICC President to visit Botswana
Responding to questions sent to him, the Secretary General of the African Press Organisation, Nicholas Miognard, said Song will meet with President Ian Khama, Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani and other senior officials. "On June 1, 2009 President...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 04 June 2009
BaKgatla women ready for Friday's Bojale launch
The women taking part in the Bojale find themselves living two kinds of lives. During the day they talk on cell phones and work with their computers in their offices. They drive flashy cars dressed in Western fashions. Once the day is over,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
More questions than Dikgosi
No explanation was availed during the proceedings. When quizzed later, the chairman of Ntlo ya Dikgosi, Kgosi Puso Gaborone, said the House has a responsibility to rearrange the questions in the order paper as it suit them. "The House can rearrange...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 June 2009
'Environment, clean days' to be commemorated tomorrow
The hosts, Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) in the Ministry of Environment Wildlife and Tourism will celebrate the day under the theme, "Your Planet Needs You-Unite To Combat Climate Change." The theme will focus on issues of climate change...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 04 June 2009
The NZ football saga shows we are failing
They had to fly out of Botswana into South Africa because they found our infrastructure wanting, in a serious way. What does this say about us as a nation? Action speaks louder than words, and what the New Zealand national team action tells us about...
04 June 2009
'I was hired to kill Kalafatis,' says former agent
He says the old man sought his services though his 'bosses' in the DIS. Sanderson and his DIS partner engaged in the project because, he says, the bosses knew and agreed to it since the customer was a friend to influential people. Sanderson,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Daggers or peace beckon, Nasha entreats Bakgatla
The current session of Ntlo ya Dikgosi ends today after two weeks of deliberations during which the BaKgatla were not represented. The front row seat that Kgosi Mothibe used to occupy remained empty throughout as a constant reminder of the absence...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Accused car thief accuses police of torture
Sibanda Sebekile is facing two counts of theft of a motor vehicle and entering the country through an illegal point. On the first count, Sebekile is charged with stealing a Ford Courier pickup registered B 559 ABC valued at P20,000. The vehicle is...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Lionjanga clears the jungle of corruption on appeal
The former Executive Chairman of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) was convicted on a single count of corruption by the Village Magistrates Court early this year. He was sentenced to a three-year jail term wholly suspended for...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
MoE regrets crossed wires over allowance
According to information received from the principal public relations officer in the ministry, Nomsah Zuze, the students will not be paid their allowances for June and July. The ministry is aware that it had earlier on communicated with the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
The Patriot: A slave or a free spirit?
Is patriotism the slavish devotion to thy motherland? Is it cautious devotion? Is it blind intercourse and defence of the status quo? Do the conservatives own it? The question surrounding what constitutes a true patriot is perhaps at its peak in...
05 June 2009
Govt hacks P10 billion from NDP10
Implementation of the NDP 10 should have begun in April, the beginning of the financial year, but was delayed for 12 months because the government was still assessing the extent of the financial crisis. NDP 10 will now only be debated at the opening...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Botswana and other SADC countries sign EPAs without SA
Information reaching Mmegi is that Moroka, who was in President Ian Khama's delegation to Belgium this week, remained in Brussels to sign the interim deal. The EU office in Gaborone says the interim EPA was in place but not signed, hence yesterday's...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
PPC to expand Botswana Business
PPC told Engineering News on Tuesday that its aggregates unit had moved its semi-mobile crushing plant from a quarry in Mooiplaas in South Africa's Gauteng Province to the Kgale Quarry near Gaborone, allowing it to increase its production from 500,...
STAFF WRITER 05 June 2009
Dust is still the blight of the BOCCIM show
This year's BNTF was held under the theme "Competitiveness: Strategy for Growth". It was held at the BOCCIM Fair Grounds here from May 28 to 31 and was officially opened by the Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Duke Lefhoko. Exhibitors have...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Government splashes P65 million on diamond valuer
According to a notice of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) published on Tuesday, a US$9,427,409.00 tender submitted by the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources on April 27 was approved at a PPADB board meeting on May...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
The Sanderson tapes
In Tape 1 Sanderson says the person he is speaking to is an agent of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (Name known to Mmegi). Two things are clear - One is Sanderson, the other is a male person's voice with a Botswana accent. The two greet...
05 June 2009
Consumer Watchdog
Say it out loud, go on. Well, I think it's funny.Some of the people close to me think I'm obsessed. They think I've developed a slightly mad devotion to certain subjects, certain groups of people and certain things that the consumers of...
05 June 2009
The Bakgatla-baga-Kgafela's initiates' rites and the modern society
Chieftaincy among the Bakgatla is hereditary as it is inherited by the eldest son of the Chief's great wife. Initiation rites (bogwera for males and bojale for females) were very important agencies of socialisation among the Bakgatla. However,...
CHRISTIAN JOHN MAKGALA
(University of Botswana) 05 June 2009
Thapong hosts Ngoni's Meloko Exhibition
Ngoni, who is famous for his captivating and thought-provoking surrealistic works, decided to mount more realism paintings this time round. Most if not all of the paintings at the exhibition are oil on canvas and there is no doubt that the artist has...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Back Stage
Changeling (2008) is now available as a DVD. It is one of the latest in the reality cinema efforts of Clint Eastwood. It is a powerful film that confronts the evil in humans, a movie that stalks the truth, and may be fearful to some. It stars...
SASA MAJUMA 05 June 2009
The digole came with independence
Reviewed bySHERIDAN GRISWOLD Correspondent "Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana" is an unusual volume that will appeal to a wide variety of people with diverse interest. It is an historical study, but with strong ethnographic...
05 June 2009
Informal sector blossoms
FRANCISTOWN:Every morning, Mavis Ncube walks into town to start her day under the corridors of Chinese shops on Blue Jacket Street. That has been her routine since 1999 when she was "chased away like a dog" from her job as a maid. She remembers the...
05 June 2009
Francistown West: Portrait of traumatised electorate
FRANCISTOWN: Many Francistown West voters, speaking early this week, threatened not to vote in the October general elections, most of them saying that they have no confidence in the political system.Francistown West consists of seven wards and the...
05 June 2009
ICC president praises Botswana
Mmegi Firstly explain to us how the court came to the conclusion to give out an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir? Song Let me first start by explaining that the International Criminal Court is the first independent and...
05 June 2009
African media must combat Western stereotypes - Kedikilwe
Officiating at the 5th English Department International Conference at the University of Botswana early this week, he said misinformation about Africa has become a growth industry in the West. Kedikilwe said it is time Africa developed its own...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Making gentle conversation in Tokyo
Travel is one of the ways in which one can extend one's horizons and break long-held stereotypes. There are fewer places around the planet that offer a lesson in deconstruction of ingrained myths than the island of Japan. Before I embarked on this...
05 June 2009
The Sanderson tapes
The two men greet each other. And then the following conversation unfolds. 1) Offer to kill Kalafatis Intelligence Agent 2: (unintelligible). Tell me something.... Sanderson: What is it you wanna know? Intelligence Agent 2: (laughs)... Why you...
05 June 2009
British parley, good model for Botswana
A letter written by his own Labour MP, calling for his immediate resignation, was expected to have been circulated and supported by fellow Labour MPs today. These interesting developments come within days of the British local government and elections...
05 June 2009
WHITHER BOTSWANA?
John Kalafatis was someone I (and no doubt many others) had never heard of before, still don't know, but will now never forget. Such is the intensity of the ongoing publicity and outrage about his death that it can't possibly continue to be business...
DAN MOABI 05 June 2009
Who guarantees Khama's peace?
Each described the elephant in accordance with the part that they happened to be holding. The one holding the tail said it was like a needle, the one holding the tusk that it was like a rock, etc. They were all wrong, but also all right in view of...
05 June 2009
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05 June 2009
NITTY GRITTY
As you read with your own eyes and heard with your own ears, dear readers whose five senses are always intact, Chicken is now the new Cock. The fellows of the Nitty Gritty are at this very moment discussing the issue of his new name, and as I open...
BAROLONG SEBONI 05 June 2009
And now fans threaten boycott
The game itself remained in serious doubt late yesterday although authorities were adamant it would go ahead. The supporters say they will instead engage in social football to pass time starting at 2.30pm. The Zebras' Supporters Club chairperson,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Zebras move up rankings ahead of NZ tie
The Zebras have been on a decline in the FIFA rankings since hitting their highest mark in September 2007. This was under the tutelage of Colwyn Rowe when the Zebras were 95th in the world. Interestingly, the Zebras' opponents tomorrow have moved...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
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